I'm about the 20th person to discover this, so none of that "I knew about this before you were born, before Abe Lincoln was elected, and before cavemen could walk upright!" bullshit.

Here's a commercial for Combos, from the current national ad campaign, in which the son is played by an Abso alum. Nice.

Don't feel so hot today. Getting over a cold, taking Zicam chewables, and drinking effervescent tablet-form stuff. And Mountain Dew. It's not bad, but I'm not up for much, either.

Went to Best Buy last night for a few minutes to pick up speaker stands for the 5.1. Set those up, watched a movie. I missed having 5.1. Then I sifted through Ye ( Read more... )

On a lark, I looked up how much money I'm saving on gasoline.

Here's the old Sunbird.

Here's the new HondaOnly saving about 6 miles to the gallon highway, but it's more like 11 in the city, and holy crap does that add up. Annual fuel cost went from more than $1,400 to less than $700 ( Read more... )

Man, I hate Borders. I used to work there until one day when I decided not to go anymore, so there's that. And now my friend Kathryn works there, which means that when she is there she is unable to kick ass at what she really likes to do ( Read more... )

"Having good actors and actress like this gave them to work with the character as well as in improving a lot."

"Since it is just them most of the time they seem to monologue back and forth." [Note: That would be a conversation.]

More as I find them.

I love grading journals. Basically this is my only chance to see if anything I've been throwing at them all semester actually stuck in their minds. From the looks of the journals, at least a few things did - mind you, they're telling me what they think I want to hear, which is part of this, but at least they're thinking. It's an easy assignment ( Read more... )

Will Smith's new film, The Pursuit of Happyness [sic], is the kind of stuff I wonder about when I should be working ( Read more... )

How come I'm the only person who walked out of Stranger Than Fiction disappointed that they never explained HOW Will Ferrell could hear Emma Thompson's voice in his head ( Read more... )

Put together King's Eye Land: Soundtrack to 2006 this afternoon.

This one was easier than last year's, and twice as long. (Note: If you want 2005, act quickly because iTunes will delete it by the end of the month.)

( Here's the mix to 2006... )

Having seen Clerks in college in 1995 and coming into adulthood since then, watching this film is like seeing old friends who never went anywhere, but see life moving on without them. No, it's not as ascerbic or "indie" as the first film (and Dante and Randall aren't obviously reading their lines from inside newspapers/magazines), and yet this ( Read more... )